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Denise Robins (1897–1985)

Autor de Fauna Trilogy, 1-3

198 Obras 473 Miembros 4 Reseñas 2 Preferidas
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Romance author Denise Robins was born on February 1, 1897. During her lifetime, she wrote short stories, plays, and about two hundred novels using a variety of pen-names including Ashley French, Harriet Gray, Julia Kane, and Francesca Wright. She died on May 1, 1985. (Bowker Author Biography)
Créditos de la imagen: Denise Naomi Klein Robins Pearson

Series

Obras de Denise Robins

Fauna Trilogy, 1-3 (1978) 19 copias
Life and Love (1935) 6 copias
My Lady Destiny (1961) 6 copias
Strange Rapture (1932) 6 copias
The Loves of Lucrezia (1953) 6 copias
Venetian Rhapsody (1954) 6 copias
To Love Again (1949) 6 copias
Khamsin (1948) 6 copias
Meet Me in Monte Carlo (1955) 5 copias
The Tiger in Men (1937) 5 copias
The Seagull's Cry (1957) 5 copias
Second Best (1931) 5 copias
Bride of Doom (1956) 5 copias
Desert Rapture (1944) 5 copias
Gold for the Gay Masters (1954) 5 copias
The Unlit Fire (1960) 5 copias
Dance in the Dust (1959) 5 copias
Since We Love (1938) 4 copias
The Boundary Line (1932) 4 copias
Chateau of Flowers (1958) 4 copias
Kiss of Youth (1937) 4 copias
The Crash (1966) 4 copias
Lightning Strikes Twice (1966) 4 copias
And All Because (1930) 4 copias
Love Is Enough (1941) 4 copias
The Flame and the Frost (1957) 4 copias
You Have Chosen (1938) 4 copias
Gypsy Lover (1939) 4 copias
The Enduring Flame (1929) 4 copias
Dark, Secret Love (1962) 4 copias
The Other Side of Love (1973) 4 copias
To Love is To Live (1940) 4 copias
Restless Heart (1938) 4 copias
My True Love (1953) 4 copias
Family Holiday (1937) 4 copias
We Two Together (1959) 4 copias
Women Who Seek (1928) 3 copias
Those Who Love (1936) 3 copias
Heat Wave... (1930) 3 copias
Moment of Love (1964) 3 copias
Love and Desire and Hate (1969) 3 copias
Sweet Love (1934) 3 copias
Twice Have I Loved (1973) 3 copias
The Other Love (1952) 3 copias
The Snow Must Return (1971) 3 copias
The Unshaken Loyalty (1954) 3 copias
Nightingale's Song (1963) 3 copias
Fever of Love (1931) 3 copias
Shatter the Sky (1933) 3 copias
More Than Love (1947) 3 copias
Wait for Tomorrow (1967) 3 copias
Brief Ecstasy (1934) 3 copias
Dark Corridor (1974) 3 copias
Jonquil (1927) 3 copias
She-Devil = Jezebel (1970) 3 copias
Forbidden (1971) 3 copias
Escape to Love (1943) 3 copias
The Noble One (1957) 3 copias
The Long Shadow (1954) 3 copias
A Promise Is For Ever (1961) 3 copias
Something to Love (1951) 3 copias
Mad is the Heart (1963) 3 copias
Put Back the Clock (1962) 3 copias
Set the Stars Alight (1941) 2 copias
A Love Like Ours (1969) 2 copias
Love's Triumph (1983) 2 copias
The Marriage Bond (1924) 2 copias
The Wild Bird (1932) 2 copias
Love Game (1936) 2 copias
Life's a Game (1933) 2 copias
White Jade (1928) 2 copias
Sealed Lips (1924) 2 copias
Heavy Clay (1929) 2 copias
Enchanted Island (1956) 2 copias
The Story of Veronica (1946) 2 copias
How Great the Price (1935) 2 copias
Bitter-Sweet (1955) 2 copias
Love, Volume I (Omnibus) (1979) 2 copias
Sweet Cassandra (1970) 2 copias
The Price of Folly (1968) 2 copias
All this for Love (1935) 2 copias
Figs in Frost (1946) 2 copias
Dear Loyalty (1939) 2 copias
Murder in Mayfair (1935) 2 copias
Officer's Wife (1939) 2 copias
The Woman's Side of It (1937) 2 copias
The Inevitable End (1927) 2 copias
Never Give All (1934) 2 copias
Honour's Price (1929) 2 copias
Blaze of Love (1932) 2 copias
The Bitter Core (1954) 2 copias
The Passionate Flame (1928) 2 copias
Lovers of Janine (1931) 2 copias
Heart of Paris (1951) 2 copias
Strange Meeting (1952) 2 copias
Loving and Giving (1965) 2 copias
When a Woman Loves (1955) 2 copias
I, Too, Have Loved (1939) 2 copias
Reputation (1963) 2 copias
Island of Flowers (1940) 2 copias
Could I Forget (1948) 2 copias
Slave-Woman (1934) 2 copias
This Spring of Love (1943) 2 copias
Australian Opal Safari (1974) 2 copias
It Wasn't Love (1930) 2 copias
Dust of Dreams (1940) 2 copias
The Secret Hour (1932) 2 copias
The Untrodden Snow (1958) 2 copias
The Changing Years (1943) 2 copias
Climb to the Stars (1935) 2 copias
The Strong Heart (1965) 2 copias
Little We Know (1940) 2 copias
Gay Defeat (1933) 2 copias
Do Not Go, My Love (1959) 2 copias
All For You (1946) 2 copias
Swing of Youth (1930) 2 copias
All That Matters (1956) 1 copia
Second Marriage (1951) 1 copia
Set Me Free (1937) 1 copia
Stranger Than Fiction (1965) 1 copia
Love's Broken Idol (1918) 1 copia
Breaking Point (1956) 1 copia
Queen of the Roses (1943) 1 copia
Christmas Roses (1942) 1 copia
What Wendy Did (1942) 1 copia
When Love Called (1942) 1 copia
The Sin Was Mine (1964) 1 copia
Once Is Enough (1953) 1 copia
Systurnar 1 copia
Time Runs Out (1968) 1 copia
Odota huomista (1980) 1 copia
The Madness of Love (1950) 1 copia
The Hard Way (1949) 1 copia
Never Look Back (1944) 1 copia
Winged Love (1940) 1 copia
This One Night (1942) 1 copia
Arrow in the Heart (1960) 1 copia
Two Loves (1954) 1 copia
The First Long Kiss (1953) 1 copia
Give Me Back My Heart (1944) 1 copia
Illusion of Love (1924) 1 copia
Love Poems, and others (1930) 1 copia
The Enchantress (1929) 1 copia
Infatuation (1951) 1 copia
Love Was a Jest (1929) 1 copia
Masquerade of Love (1985) 1 copia
O Love! O Fire! (1966) 1 copia
Men Are Only Human (1933) 1 copia
Greater Than All (1946) 1 copia
Forgive Me, My Love (1947) 1 copia
War changes Everything (1943) 1 copia
I Should Have Known (1961) 1 copia
Come Back, Yesterday (1976) 1 copia
The Uncertain Heart (1949) 1 copia
Daughter Knows Best (1943) 1 copia
If This Be Destiny (1941) 1 copia
Separation (1946) 1 copia
Love So Young (1945) 1 copia
The Dark Death (1929) 1 copia
Love Me No More (1948) 1 copia
What Matters Most (1942) 1 copia
How to Forget (1944) 1 copia
The World of Romance (anthology) (1964) — Editor — 1 copia

Etiquetado

Conocimiento común

Nombre legal
Klein Robins Pearson, Denise Naomi
Otros nombres
Chesterton, Denise
Robins, Denise
Robins, Denise
Hamilton, Hervey
Wright, Francesca
French, Ashley (mostrar todos 8)
Gray, Harriet
Kane, Julia
Fecha de nacimiento
1897-02-01
Fecha de fallecimiento
1985-05-01
Género
female
Nacionalidad
UK (birth)
Lugar de nacimiento
London, England, UK
Lugar de fallecimiento
England, UK
Lugares de residencia
London, England, UK
Ocupaciones
journalist
freelance writer
novelist
Relaciones
Dealtry, Kit (mother)
Cornwell-Clyne, Adrian (brother)
Robins, Patricia (daughter)
Klein, Herman (father)
Organizaciones
Romantic Novelists' Association (President, 1960-66)
Agente
Curtis Brown
Biografía breve
Denise Naomi Klein was born on 1 February 1897 in London, England, daughter of Herman Klein (1856-1934) and Kathleen Clarice Louise Cornwell (1872-1954). Her parents married on 19 February 1890 at the West London Synagogue, her father was a English music critic, author and teacher of singing and her mother was a Australian-born heiress, 16 years younger than him. Denise had a half-sister, Sibyl Klein, who became an actress. She also had two older brothers, Adrian Bernard L. Klein (1892-1969), who later changed his name to Adrian Cornwell-Clyne and wrote books on photography and cinematography, and Daryl Kleyn (b. 1894). During her parents marriage, her mother began an affair with a young Worcestershire Regiment officer, Herbert Arthur Berkeley Dealtry (b. 1878). When her father became aware of it, he filed a petition for divorce, which was granted in December 1901. After the divorce, her mother married Dealtry in 1902, but they were going through financial difficulties. They had to declare bankruptcy in 1905. The same year her father remarried with Helene Fox, a Christian Science practitioner of Boston, Massachusetts.

As Kit Dealtry, her mother began to publish her own writings, first short stories in magazines an later gothic novels. Years later, and single again her mother returned to London. In 1918, and remarried for a third time with Sydney H. Groom, and started to sign her novels as C. Groom, Mrs Sydney Groom, Kathleen Clarice Groom and Clarice Groom. After Naomi left school, she decided follow in her mother's footsteps, and to publish her writings. She went to work as a journalist for the D.C. Thomson Press, then became a freelance writer. Denise married Arthur Robins, a corn broker on the Baltic Exchange, but the marriage ended in divorce, after she met O'Neill Pearson in Egypt, who later became her second husband. She was the mother of three daughters, Patricia Robins (also know as Claire Lorrimer) who became another best-selling romance author, Anne, and Eve.

As a writer of fiction, Denise wrote short stories, plays and about 200 gothic romance novels under a variety of pseudonyms, including: Denise Chesterton, Hervey Hamilton, Francesca Wright, Ashley French, Harriet Gray, and Julia Kane, she also used to sign the books her first married name, Denise Robins, and some of her books were reedited under this pen-name. In 1927, over ten years after she began to publish, Denise meet Charles Boon, of Mills & Boon, and she signed her first contract with his firm the same year. In a short time, she became the best paid Mills & Boon's writer, and one of the most prolific, but in 1935 she changed to a new publisher, Nicholson & Watson, that made her a better offer, and later with Hodder & Stoughton. During her very long career she worked with major publishing houses. Taylor Caldwell said: "Rarely has any writer of our times delved so deeply into the secret places of a woman's heart." As in her real life, many of her novels are love triangles, and also appear as a backdrop the World Wars.

In 1960, she founded with other romance writers the "Romantic Novelists' Association" (R.N.A.), and she was its first president until 1966. In 1965, she wrote her autobiography, "Stranger Than Fiction". Denise passed away 1 May 1985 in her native England. At the time of her death her novels, translated into 15 languages, had sold more than 100 million copies. In 1984, they were borrowed more than 1.5 million times from British libraries.

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The book had been almost entirely a family thing- the feelings and problems of married couples and an eye opener in that sense.But when it started getting longer it became boring. What i really liked was the ending which was beatiful and perfect for the story althought not surprisingly strange for such a storyline.
The essence of the book:Mrs.Christina Allen narrates how her married life hadn't worked out the way she had planned and hence was applying for divorce and to be remarried to Philip Cranleigh.She decidedly writes a diary stating the whole truth about her marriage from the beginn. but slowly as she completes the book she understands that she doesnt really want to get married with this new man plus lose her children forever.She lets go of him but ahead with the divorce if Charles needed it.The climax however is that Charles meets with an accident that kills James his son and charles' step mother.Christina returns to nurse injured Charles and take care of things and hopes charles will allow her to stay in their once home and be his wife again to which he gladly consents… (más)
 
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Linnabraham | 2 reseñas más. | Jan 6, 2022 |
Look, sometimes you just have to meet a book where it is. This story is absolutely ridiculous, and filled to the brim with so many stereotypes that if you think about it too hard, your head will spin. Our tragic little heroine, Celia, is perfectly tragic and ethereal and of course everyone who comes into contact with her absolutely adores her. Her wicked stepmother, Isobel, is evil incarnate, selfish and conniving and a total bitch to poor dear Celia. She never loved Celia's father, only married him for his money, and is livid when he dies and she learns that he tied up all his money in a trust for Celia. She hatches a plan to marry Celia off to one of her cronies, Fulke Withers, so that she can have control of Celia's money. Of course she has red hair (and its mentioned several times that she's slovenly and prances around like a painted whore).

Celia was neglected by her father during his lifetime and ill-treated by Isobel after his death. She has been isolated at Storm Castle for most of her life, only going away to boarding school as a teenager and then returning to be a slave to her baby stepbrother. She's basically Rapunzel, locked in her gloomy, gothic turret tower, waiting for her prince to come rescue her.

Her prince is a dark-haired French fisherman named Paul, whom she meets quite by chance one day. On the second day of their friendship, they declare their undying love for each other and start working on plans to get Celia out of Storm Castle so that they can marry. Isobel, of course, forbids it, which only fuels the young lovers' passion. As this all takes place during 1940, there is the backdrop of WWII and the stormy Cornish coast to add to the drama.

And boy is there plenty of drama: attempted rape, abduction, car crashes, elopement, fire, storms, blackmail, secret war missions, bribery. The romance is thin and simplistic by comparison. It was a bit of a mixture of a Disney princess story, a gothic romance, and a really bad, trashy novel that gives romance a bad reputation. Yet it all, somehow, worked for me on some level. Maybe I was just in the right mood, but I couldn't help rooting for silly Celia to free herself from her evil stepmother's clutches and finally marry her dearly beloved Paul.

I can't say I'd recommend this to anyone, but I don't regret buying it or reading it, and am happy to have it in my vintage romance collection.
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eurohackie | Jul 4, 2019 |
I received Dark, Secret Love from LibraryThing in exchange for an honest review:

First thing that I have to say about this book is that it was dark. It was very well written and drew you in from the first page. The author warns you from the very beginning what the books is. Of course that only made me want to read it more!

The characters that came and went in her life were all interesting. You can see the way that they all formed her into the woman that she is today. The way that the author tells the stories is very interesting....she doesn't expect you to like them, love them, hate them or even understand them.....she just needs to put them down on paper.

Can I say that I loved this book....no. I did enjoy it though.
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DawnGenna | 2 reseñas más. | Oct 9, 2013 |
I received Dark, Secret Love from LibraryThing in exchange for an honest review:

First thing that I have to say about this book is that it was dark. It was very well written and drew you in from the first page. The author warns you from the very beginning what the books is. Of course that only made me want to read it more!

The characters that came and went in her life were all interesting. You can see the way that they all formed her into the woman that she is today. The way that the author tells the stories is very interesting....she doesn't expect you to like them, love them, hate them or even understand them.....she just needs to put them down on paper.

Can I say that I loved this book....no. I did enjoy it though.
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DawnGenna | 2 reseñas más. | Oct 9, 2013 |

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Obras
198
Miembros
473
Popularidad
#52,094
Valoración
3.0
Reseñas
4
ISBNs
713
Idiomas
4
Favorito
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